Utada Hikaru is not only a J-pop star (Japanese) but she is also from a well known musical family from New York City in which she was born.
Hikaru compsed her first Japanese song at the age of eleven and her first english one at thirteen. With her first Japanese album released in 1999 entitled "First Love", she has since sold nine million copies. Also during the first week of release,completely breaking the record of first-week sales of a debut album, her CD hit number one on the Japanese charts.
After her switch from Toshiba EMI to Island-Universal Music Japan, she saddend many of her fans because she decided to record an English-language album. She then came out with a song entitled, "Exodus 04," because many fans interpreted her lyrics as a good bye to Japan, many were devastated. After her release in September 2004, Utada is labeled to have to record for the largest-ever one-day shipment of an English language album, during Mariah Carey's previous record of 500,000. Part of the reason why that song was so popular was because Timbaland and Mars Volta produced as well as drummer, Jon Theodore.
One popular song that many might be familiar with is "Devil Inside." With that song Utada Hikaru got her first U.S mainstream debut.
Shanae Harris
Jeffries, D. (2007) All Music Guide Retrieved from,http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Hikaru,_Utada/Biography/.
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